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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 17h

i’ve got a new bit, now i just say “sorry i don’t speak chinese” in perfect chinese over and over until they get mad and hang up

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

Judge Sara Hill, N.D. Oklahoma, issued this decision on Thursday —>

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 19h

Clement has really walked the walk. Flame me all you like.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 21h

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 22h

When military police found Adrian Martinez's body, his bags had already been packed for his trip home to Houston. The army says he took his own life, but their investigation seemed to ignore one key fact: He was a sexual assault whistleblower.

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A Texas Soldier's Death Casts Doubt on Federal Whistleblower Protections

Adrian Martinez reported a sexual assault two years before he was found dead on a Hawaii Army base. The Vanessa Guillén Act is supposed to protect soldiers like him.

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Leah Elizabeth @uberleah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They’ve been sending these faux progressive texts to my phone about Question 3– I feel like the polling trending ‘yes’ is because they’re marketing it like it’s akin to ranked choice voting and most people can’t tell the difference. Trying to scream ‘no on 3’ from the rooftops & people are confused.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah I don’t think taking their chairs away is going to make TSA agents more “amiable.”

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I love this. Hudson Williams is the best "new" Canadian celeb in a while. Dude gets outfitted in over $150,000 of fashion & jewels for galas. To honour Truth & Rec, he wore a BC Indigenous designer's work on the red carpet -- and PAID for it. Guy had over $12,000 in sales by the day's end:

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Hundreds of Followers. Thousands of Dollars. What Happens When Hudson Williams Wears an Indie Brand

Indigenous designer Justin Jacob Louis talks about his now-viral sweater. “It’s cool when somebody who has that much influence sees and appreciates your work.”

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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zandra @maja-li.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cannot believe it's going to be 80F tomorrow. Hateful.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 01/10/2026

truculence ball

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kay taylor rea @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Amazing to see Kate Spade New York is the inaugural donor for the real life Irina Foundation, whose fictional inspiration was named for a character who lost their life to suicide. For those who don't know, Spade suffered from depression and anxiety for many years before her death by suicide in 2018.

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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Debates over legal liability for AI agents always remind me a bit of the early spring gun cases, like Bird v. Holbrook, 30 E.R. 911 (C.P. 1828). AI is new in a lot of ways, but the issue of legal liability for harms conducted by machines programmed to act on their own is not the new part.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026

This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Currently listening to this OA, and it continues to irritate me how much judges find themselves carefully pretending that there isn't an underlying problem with this government failing to operate in good faith. They just don't want to say it.

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zandra @maja-li.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Working on this draft & neither party has cited PRACTICALLY ANY caselaw which is so deeply unhelpful that I want to stab someone

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

STRENGTH CRUSHES ENEMIES! ARE YOU HYDRATED?

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blueMeridian @bluemeridian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hahaha— Look. I’m trying, mmkay?

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“It’s not pervert glasses, it’s a tiny fuzzy pervert you wear around your neck because you trapped him in a tiny pervert cage. It’s not weird. He likes the cage, if you know what I mean. Now come over here and let him have a good look at you.”

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

genuinely I think we would be in a better place, morally, as a society if all of these fraudsters were in jail and people saw that there were consequences for behaving in such a flagrantly antisocial manner rather than endlessly lucrative rewards

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Purple DNG noodle @purpledngnoodle.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Snuggling with Halsin must feel soooooo goood🫠

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We are basically like this in research already. Postdocs and PhD students growing plants, doing tissue culture, and pipetting, while AI chat bots doing the analyses, writing proposals and papers. Humans having to do the menial tasks, while AI chat bots took over the creative work.

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Isabel Cooper @isabelcooper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Planning to rock up to my next interview with an iced coffee *and* a copy of the Astarion novel, just to cross the Discourse Streams.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The discussion of Purcell in here is a useful correction to the Eighth Circuit. Imagine! Explaining your reasoning in a court decision!

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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zandra @maja-li.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have been stabinated \o/ twice, even! And I did NOT bleed unusually much this year, confirming my suspicion that last time was indeed bc of the tech -___-;;

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

whomst so amongst us tbh whomst so

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

LOVE this story. I was in Maine this summer and was thrilled to get some honestly pretty good French-style hard cider from a local business that was gathering apples from some of the ancient trees scattered throughout the local area.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jake Tapper (moderating the 2028 Dem primary debate): Final question. Do you renounce the Western Massachusetts lesbian bar? Pete Buttigieg: I renounce it. Kamala: I renounce it. AOC: I renounce it. Gavin Newsom: I will be deploying the National Guard to Greenfield on day one of my administration.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As a result of @benjaminjriley.bsky.social's most recent Alpha School reporting, all who have been saying "AI has a Mechanical Turk problem" - that is, "artificial intelligence" is actually the cognitive labor of humans in the Global South - get to take another victory lap. They must be winded.

They hired this data team of people that didn't live in the U.S. and they would watch us through our computers and it felt really sketchy and scary. It felt like it was more of a science experiment, and I was more of a lab rat rather than [having] someone that actually cared about my learning.
I was getting really frustrated about that throughout the year. Every time they would change something, I would be like, why are we changing this?
We couldn't tape over the computer or anything like that. They would get really frustrated if we taped over it. We had to keep the camera on.
[The software] would also track your facial expressions, and be like, "This is the emotion that you're evoking while you're talking about this." And every single time, it would tell me that I look really sad, which is fair because / was really sad, because / was crying every single day.
They would make me and a few other kids take standardized math tests pretty much every day, and then any question that we got wrong, we would have to get on a Zoom call with some random guy from normally India and explain to him every single thing that we got wrong and why. And I hated that.
I was a guinea pig, and I knew that I was a guinea pig. They were not subtle about it.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.

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tofu @noizuit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Come back to the Northern Desert with me. #svsss #moshang

This image depicts Mobei Jun from Scum Villain angrily carrying a crying Shang Qinghua over his shoulders like a shawl.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i like to imagine instead of being sent anywhere they just scuttle down the road and one morning there'll be a knock at the door and your little crab pot will find a nice seat on a mantelpiece and just move in

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